Daniel J. Turner

Research

Understanding Failure in Real Networks

My current research ...

A Comparison of Syslog and IS-IS for Monitoring Link State
Daniel Turner, Kirill Levchenko, Alex C. Snoeren, and Stefan Savage
IMC, Barcelona, Spain, October 2013.
Slides I used for the talk can be found
here.

Wireless

I have previoulsy worked on the evaluation of self-calibrating
techniques for location detection in enterprise 802.11 networks. One
of the key goals of this work was to find and understand failures
that are unique to each system as well as those that are
systematic and have no solution.

I also presented a poster on my
work an the 2009 winter CNS research review.

Summer 08

During the summer of 2008 I worked at
Sun Microsystems Laboratories.
While there I worked under Olaf Manczak on
Project Live*.
Standard techniques for software distribution and configuration have
been unable to scale to the size of enterprise data centers. Live*
leverages the power of several well known abstractions and tools as
well as some new ideas to bridge the gap between ease-of-use and
customizability.

My work focused on "Constructing One Click Virtual Machines".
One of my key tasks was to build a GUI that allowed one to use the
Live* framework to build and launch a fully customized Virtual
Machine with only a few mouse clicks.
A copy of the talk I gave at the conclusion of my internship can be
found
here.

Undergraduate

TinkerNet

I worked on
the TinkerNet
project under Michael
Erlinger. TinkerNet is a low-cost platform for teaching bottom-up,
hands-on networking at the undergraduate level. We published
a paper
in the Eighth Australasian Computing Education Conference (ACE2006).